The Book of Australia |
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A. B. Paterson Aboriginal agricultural animals arid Arnhem Land Australian Alps Australian bush Banjo Paterson Bass Strait beaches birds Bligh blue bush ballad bushfires bushrangers Cape York Peninsula cattle centre century cliffs coast coastal coastline colony colourful continent deep Dorothea Mackellar drought eastern eucalypts exploration face flowers forests gorges Governor grass green grey ground half horizon hundred industry Island Jimmy Woodser jungle kangaroo lakes largest live Macarthur major mallee Marjorie Barnard marsupial Melbourne miles mountains Ned Kelly north Queensland Northern Territory pastures plains plants population rain rainfall rainforests ranges reefs regions ridges River rock sailed salt sand sandstone season settlement settlers sheep shore soil South Australia South Wales spectacular squatters surf swaggie Sydney Sydney's tablelands Tasmania thousand trees tropical trunk Valley vast vegetation Victoria waterholes wattle Western Australia Whale wheat winds wool young